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	<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Hugin</h1>
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is an Open Source panorama stitcher and graphical user interface (GUI) for <a href="Panorama_tools.html" title="Panorama tools">Panorama tools</a>. It also provides a number of additional components and command line tools.
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<h2><a name="About_Hugin"><span class="mw-headline">About Hugin</span></a></h2>
<p>Although Hugin is essentially a panorama stitcher, like other GUI front-ends<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/GUI_front-ends">[*]</a> it has a range of advanced features:
</p><p>Among the Hugin workflow options, it is possible to correct <a href="Exposure_correction.html" title="Exposure correction">exposure</a>, <a href="Vignetting.html" title="Vignetting">Vignetting</a> and <a href="White_balance.html" title="White balance">White balance</a> between photos; generate <a href="HDR.html" title="HDR">HDR</a>,  exposure fused<a class="external" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_Fusion">[*]</a> or focus stacked<a class="external" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking">[*]</a> output from <a href="Bracketing.html" title="Bracketing">bracketed</a> photos; or use <a href="16bit.html" title="16bit">16bit</a> and <a href="HDR.html" title="HDR">HDR</a> input data natively.
</p><p>Photos can be digital or scanned, and taken with any kind of camera. A full range of lenses are supported, from simple cameraphones to obscure <a href="Fisheye.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Fisheye">fisheye</a> lenses.  Hugin supports various output <a href="Projections.html" title="Projections">projections</a> including a range of spherical, cartographic, and camera projections.
</p><p>Hugin supports panoramas taken with multiple rows of photos, with or without bracketing.  Bracketed photos can be handheld, taken using a DSLR bracketing function, or as consecutive panoramas shot at different EV exposure levels.  Hugin can produce successful panoramas shot with cameras that always shoot using auto-exposure and auto-whitebalance.
</p><p>Hugin also supports the use of masks which means that you can exclude parts of images you don't want to appear in your panoramas, or include parts of image you specifically want to appear in your panoramas.
</p><p>Hugin also uses a separate (background) panorama stitcher. This means that you can render a panorama in the PTBatcherGUI stitch window, while working on the next panorama in Hugin.
</p><p>Starting with version 2011.2.0, Hugin is scriptable in Python.  The scripting functionality is still in its infancy and requires more development and testing.  For now it is available only in Linux and Windows, and currently there is no feedback from the plugin apart from it's success or failure, which is communicated in a dialog. If you're on Linux, you can start Hugin from the command line and switch to the window you started it from while the plugin is running - then you'll see any console output it may produce.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net">Hugin homepage</a> on SourceForge. Screenshots, Tutorials, Documentation and Links.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin">Hugin project summary page</a> on SourceForge. Downloads.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://launchpad.net/hugin">Hugin on Launchpad</a>. Bug database and Feature requests.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_FAQ.html" title="Hugin FAQ">Hugin FAQ</a> Frequently asked questions about Hugin.</li></ul>
<h2><a name="User_interface"><span class="mw-headline">User interface</span></a></h2>
<p>The Hugin version as of version 2013.0.0 (to be released early 2013) consists of three User interfaces: <b>Simple</b>, <b>Advanced</b> and <b>Expert</b>.
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<ul><li><b>Simple</b>: This user interface consists of all basic functionality to create a panorama and will suffice in 90% of all cases.</li>
<li><b>Advanced</b>: This user interface will start Hugin in the Panorama Editor screen; the simple interface is available in the background.</li>
<li><b>Expert</b>: This user interface also starts Hugin in the Panorama Editor screen and will unleash all the power and options of Hugin.</li></ul>
<p><i>(Go to  Version 2012 and older Gui<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Main_window_old_gui">[*]</a> to read about the "old" gui which is being used in the current stable release. Note that all Hugin 2012 and older versions come with the help screens installed. You can read the same texts as in this wiki by simply opening <b>Hugin</b> and clicking the "Help" option from the "Help" menu)</i>
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<h3><a name="Simple_User_Interface"><span class="mw-headline">Simple User Interface</span></a></h3>
<ul><li><a href="Hugin_Main_window.html" title="Hugin Main window">Simple User Interface Main window</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Assistant_tab.html" title="Hugin Assistant tab">Hugin Assistant tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Preview_tab.html" title="Hugin Preview tab">Hugin Preview tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Main_window.html#Layout" title="Hugin Main window">Hugin Layout tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Projection_tab.html" title="Hugin Projection tab">Hugin Projection tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_move_drag_tab.html" title="Hugin move drag tab">Hugin Move/Drag tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Crop_tab.html" title="Hugin Crop tab">Hugin Crop tab</a></li></ul>
<h3><a name="Advanced_User_Interface"><span class="mw-headline">Advanced User Interface</span></a></h3>
<ul><li><a href="Hugin_Panorama_Editor_window.html" title="Hugin Panorama Editor window">Panorama Editor window</a>
<ul><li><a href="Hugin_Photos_tab.html" title="Hugin Photos tab">Photos tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Mask_tab.html" title="Hugin Mask tab">Masks tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Control_Points_tab.html" title="Hugin Control Points tab">Control Points tab</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Optimiser_tab.html" title="Hugin Optimiser tab">Optimiser tab</a> (only available when selecting <b>Geometric</b> Custom parameters on the <a href="Hugin_Photos_tab.html" title="Hugin Photos tab">Photos tab</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Exposure_tab.html" title="Hugin Exposure tab">Exposure tab</a> (only available when selecting <b>Photometric</b> Custom parameters on the <a href="Hugin_Photos_tab.html" title="Hugin Photos tab">Photos tab</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Stitcher_tab.html" title="Hugin Stitcher tab">Stitcher tab</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<p>The Panorama Editor window "takes" the foreground, but you can still switch to the Simple User interface 
which is started as a "background" screen of the <a href="Hugin_Panorama_Editor_window.html" title="Hugin Panorama Editor window">Panorama Editor</a>.
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<h3><a name="Expert_User_Interface"><span class="mw-headline">Expert User Interface</span></a></h3>
<p>This one is identical to the Advanced User interface, including the Simple User interface screen in the background. It will give you even more options in the form of context-menus (right-click menus) in some parts of the screens.
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<h2><a name="Hugin_components"><span class="mw-headline">Hugin components</span></a></h2>
<p>The following tools are part of the Hugin suite:
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<ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hugin</a> the gui front end.</li>
<li><a href="Nona.html" title="Nona">nona</a> a command-line remapper which supports also photometric corrections (exposure, vignetting, white balance).</li>
<li><a href="Fulla.html" title="Fulla">fulla</a> correction of <a href="Barrel_distortion.html" title="Barrel distortion">barrel distortion</a>, <a href="Chromatic_aberration.html" title="Chromatic aberration">chromatic aberration</a> and <a href="Vignetting.html" title="Vignetting">vignetting</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Autooptimiser.html" title="Autooptimiser">autooptimiser</a> a tool with the same interface as <a href="PTOptimizer.html" title="PTOptimizer">PTOptimizer</a> except using pairwise optimization which doesn't require any manual pre-placement.</li>
<li><a href="Align_image_stack.html" title="Align image stack">align_image_stack</a> a tool to automate the process to <a href="Align_a_stack_of_photos.html" title="Align a stack of photos">align a stack of photos</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Tca_correct.html" title="Tca correct">tca_correct</a> a tool to automatically generate <a href="Chromatic_aberration.html" title="Chromatic aberration">chromatic aberration</a> correction parameters for use with <a href="Fulla.html" title="Fulla">fulla</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_executor.html" title="Hugin executor">hugin_executor</a> a tool for command-line stitching and running the assistant.</li>
<li><a href="Pto_gen.html" title="Pto gen">pto_gen</a> command line tool to generate project file from images</li>
<li><a href="Cpfind.html" title="Cpfind">cpfind</a> command line tool to find control points</li>
<li><a href="Linefind.html" title="Linefind">linefind</a> command line tool to find vertical features for leveling</li>
<li><a href="Geocpset.html" title="Geocpset">geocpset</a> command line tool to connect featureless images by "geometric" control points</li>
<li><a href="Icpfind.html" title="Icpfind">icpfind</a> command line tool for using heuristic control point matching like inside Hugin</li>
<li><a href="Cpclean.html" title="Cpclean">cpclean</a> command line tool to remove control points with improbable error distances</li>
<li><a href="Checkpto.html" title="Checkpto">checkpto</a> command line tool to examine project file and reports back the number of image chains present</li>
<li><a href="Pto_var.html" title="Pto var">pto_var</a> command line tool to manipulate image variables</li>
<li><a href="Pto_lensstack.html" title="Pto lensstack">pto_lensstack</a> command line tool to manipulate lens and stacks</li>
<li><a href="Pto_mask.html" title="Pto mask">pto_mask</a> command line tool to add mask to project file</li>
<li><a href="Pto_template.html" title="Pto template">pto_template</a> command line tool to apply template to project file</li>
<li><a href="Calibrate_lens_gui.html" title="Calibrate lens gui">calibrate_lens_gui</a> automatic lens calibration using straight-line detection</li>
<li><a href="Vig_optimize.html" title="Vig optimize">vig_optimize</a> command line tool to estimate photometric parameters.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_hdrmerge.html" title="Hugin hdrmerge">hugin_hdrmerge</a> merges multiple exposures to <a href="HDR.html" title="HDR">HDR</a> using Khan anti-ghosting algorithm</li>
<li><a href="Verdandi.html" title="Verdandi">verdandi</a> merges different images to a single image without seams.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_stacker.html" title="Hugin stacker">hugin_stacker</a> stack overlapping images to a single image.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_stitch_project.html" title="Hugin stitch project">hugin_stitch_project</a> a GUI tool to stitch a single Hugin .pto project.</li>
<li><a href="Celeste_standalone.html" title="Celeste standalone">celeste_standalone</a> removes cloud-like control points from project files.</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_Batch_Processor.html" title="Hugin Batch Processor">PTBatcherGUI</a> a GUI queue manager for stitching multiple Hugin projects.</li>
<li>deghosting_mask<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/index.php?title=Deghosting_mask&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">[*]</a> Creates mask for removing ghosting in bracketed images</li>
<li><a href="Pano_modify.html" title="Pano modify">pano_modify</a> Change output parameters of project file</li>
<li>pano_trafo<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/index.php?title=Pano_trafo&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">[*]</a> Transform image coordinates</li>
<li><a href="Pto_merge.html" title="Pto merge">pto_merge</a> Merges two or more Hugin project files</li>
<li><a href="Pto_move.html" title="Pto move">pto_move</a> Moves Hugin project files with associated images</li>
<li><a href="Hugin_lensdb.html" title="Hugin lensdb">hugin_lensdb</a> Maintenance of Hugins camera and lens database</li></ul>
<p>More information, documentation and tutorials are available on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/">project website</a>.
</p><p>Like other GUI front-ends<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/GUI_front-ends">[*]</a>, <b>Hugin</b> provides an easy-to-use unified point-and-click interface to a whole range of other command-line tools including:
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<ul><li><a href="Autopano-sift.html" title="Autopano-sift">autopano-sift</a>, <a href="Autopano-sift-C.html" title="Autopano-sift-C">autopano-sift-C</a>, <a href="Panomatic.html" title="Panomatic">panomatic</a> or <a href="Autopano.html" title="Autopano">autopano</a> for automatic creation of <a href="Control_points.html" title="Control points">control points</a> (note that an external control-point generator is no longer required by Hugin).</li>
<li><a href="Enblend.html" title="Enblend">enblend</a> and <a href="Enfuse.html" title="Enfuse">enfuse</a> for seamless blending of output images.</li></ul>
<p>The Hugin project also provides open source replacements for the small number of closed source components of <a href="Panorama_tools.html" title="Panorama tools">Panorama tools</a>, especially <a href="PTStitcher.html" title="PTStitcher">PTStitcher</a>.
A PTStitcher replacement called <a href="Nona.html" title="Nona">nona</a> and a PTOptimizer replacement called <a href="Autooptimiser.html" title="Autooptimiser">autooptimiser</a> have been developed, supporting their most important features.
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<h2><a name="Development"><span class="mw-headline">Development</span></a></h2>
<p>Hugin is Open Source, and like every community-developed software very much dependent on voluntary contributions of resources. If you have coding skills, you are welcome to look at the source code and contribute to it. Even if you don't have coding skills, you most likely have some skills that the project could use and you are more than welcome to contribute your time. The tasks requiring attention change frequently and so do the required skillset and resources. Find more about the development process<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools">[*]</a>.
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<h2><a name="External_links"><span class="mw-headline">External links</span></a></h2>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net">Hugin homepage</a> for Screenshots, Tutorials, Documentation and Links.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin">Hugin Sourceforge project</a> for Downloads.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://launchpad.net/hugin">Hugin's bug tracker</a> for bug reports and feature requests.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/hugin/">Sourceforge HG</a> to browse the Hugin source-code in Mercurial.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx">hugin-ptx GoogleGroup</a> to contribute to development and peer support.</li></ul>
<h2><a name="Supported_operating_systems"><span class="mw-headline">Supported operating systems</span></a></h2>
<ul><li>Windows<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Windows_software">[*]</a></li>
<li>Linux and Unix<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Unix_software">[*]</a></li>
<li>Mac OS X<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Mac_software">[*]</a></li></ul>

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